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Ask A Buddhist: Can I be an agnostic/atheist Buddhist?

In short, yes. Agnostic Buddhism is very much a thing, but commonly called secular Buddhism.
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Buddhist Lent?

With the coming of Lent this week and Ash Wednesday (March 5), I've been thinking about the interesting parallels between the life of Jesus and the life of Buddha.
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Ask A Buddhist: Is Buddhism a religion?

A lot of Buddhist practitioners in the West don’t care to quibble about defining Buddhism as a religion or not.
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Ask A Buddhist: Why do Buddhist nuns have more rules to follow than Buddhist monks?

Why do female Buddhist monastics have so many more rules to follow than the men?
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Ask A Buddhist: Why don’t Buddhists kill things? What do Buddhists think of abortion?

I’ve combined three questions from three different readers, because a response to one overlaps with responses to all. In short, engaging in violence or harm of any sort directly counters the aim of all Buddhist practice: the aspiration to end suffering.
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Ask a Buddhist: What is the key to meditating?

You’ve landed on a central issue for every meditator: what to do with a drifting mind. The question addresses the irony that we have a learning curve to simply be with our experience of being. Meditation is just a circumscribed time of minimal distraction.

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Can you help me understand all the different kinds of Buddhism?

Q. Can you help me understand all the different kinds of Buddhism? Like Christianity, it seems there are many branches, i.e., Zen, Tibetan, etc. How many are there and how are they different?

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